The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-04-17
ABOUT WOMEN.

MrS- Logan 1t IS SAID, has written q
novel describing Wasbiu ston society.
The Montana Legislature has raised the
"age of protection" for girls to fifteen
years.
The ladies have carried off three fourths
o. the honors in the junior class at Colby
University.
A bill requiring the appointment of pc.
lice matrons has been reported In the Mas
sachusc'ts Legislature.
Mrs. Mary Hewitt has Just passed her
health.
Nile. Maria Deraismes is said to be the
only woman freemason in France. She
IS good speaker, terse writer. and a
strong advocate Of suffrage for women.
Mrs Louisa Knapp. who now edits the
Ladies Home Journal at salary of
SO, 600 year, did her first editorial work
on the household department of the
Tribune and Farmer"
The woman who lives with man three
hundred and six-five days in a var is
not going to be degraded to any alarming
extent by voting with him on the three
hundred and sixty-ffth.- Topeka Capital
Madame Garibaldi, widow of the Ital-
ian liDerator. lives in a quiet street of
Turin, the walls of her little parlor
covered with flags, medals, and other
mementoes of her husband.
Mrs Hendricks receives vast number
of begging letters. Some of them ask for
autographs or photographs of her dead
husband. One woman, on the ground
that she is tue mother of triplets, writes
for money to buy COW.
Miss Susan Wood, B Sc, has obtained
the teachers diploma ia .he art, theory,
and history of education, at London Uni
versity. Only eight men and two women
have obtained This diploma since the ex-
AMIGA i was instituted.
Mrs Elizabeth billiard, of Iowa, Mrs
Margaret Arnold, OF OHIO, and Mrs Susan |
Baily, of D kota are sisters. The first is |
liz years old, the second 109 and the |
third 90, making total Oh 3l7 years for |
these three remarkable women.
A society has been organized among
japanese women to cultivate taste for |
foreign cooking. Many japanese women |
OF good birth are invited to dinner by !
Europeans in Yokohama Toxic, and Ma |
gasaki, and they find 1t very difficult 10
accept the hospitalities offered.
A lady who had lived in the Hawaiian.
Islands noticed that the California climate
was much like that of Hawaii, and sent |
for some banana plants for an experiment
The result has been successful, and /
banana raising promises to become a I
fiourishing California industry.
The latest news from Kansas gives the
number Of women whe registered IN Leiy
enworth as 2,763. But none of the papers
s,1, bou .I.l
declaration that less than 60J women reg.
istered iu that city have yet corrected |
their mlS-statement, so far as we have |
seen.
4 French women's rights journal, the |
'Citoyenne suggests That the places of |
inspectors Of meat markets should be |
given to women. Women, it says, buy |
the meat aud cook it, aud should therefore |
know more about its quality than the in
experienced gentlemen who are some
times appointed
a patent HIS been taken out for "a COM
bined bdsle aod chair SO netting like a
very li.h camp char attached to the back
of the oyers!1ir. Ini' invention should
find favor, esnecialiy with shop-girls and
artists lite burden of carrying sketch
stool would ihus be avoided; and if
hustle mus, be worn, it mi hit as well be
made useful
Mary CT MINER anc entered into a con
tract 10 wrie eniuma a day { r ihree
years, on any subject assigned her She
never failed for a day to fulfil her task,
which included every sort of subject,
from book reviews aud political articles
to common advertising paragraph
During the last year of this contract she
received salary of 5000.
There is not an unmarried woman IN
Turkey who can both read and write the
Turkish language, and there are but few
men who are abs to do so. 1t requires
six wears of hard stu7y to acquire these
accomplishments. When you hear of a
Turk with the title hey prefxed to his
mama, you may know that be is one of
the few educated men in that country, as
the title is only conferred upon those who
can both read and write.
Mrs. Clara E. Howe has been elected
to the School Committee in Gardner,
Mass, by the largest vote ever cast tor
school committee in that town. She had
served for two years and a half, and dis
charged the dulles so acceptably that
there was general wish to re-elec. her
for full term of three years. Even boys
went to the town meeting and asked for
ballots bearing her name, that they might
distribute them at the polls. And yet
some people still think that the found
atoms OF society would be overturned If
women were allowed to hold office.
Refrigsrators. water filters, clothes wringers,
carpet sweepeEs woodenware, willowware. and tin
wa q X MAnSoh'S.